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Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Well, #define DEBUG in the driver seems like the way to go. I do not
> like "subsystem ID" idea, because subsystems are not really well
> defined etc.
>

I think that's a non-issue, because it's largely self-defining.  It's
basically whatever the developers want them to be, because they're the
ones who it needs to make sense to.

It should, however, be an open set, not a closed set like in syslog.

	-hpa